Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
JONATHAN EDWARDSResolved, never to do anything out of revenge.
More Jonathan Edwards Quotes
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When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.
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He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
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Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
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A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
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I assert that nothing ever comes to pass without a cause.
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Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.
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A true love for God must begin with a delight in His holiness, and not with a delight in any other attribute; for no other attribute is truly lovely without this.
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God is glorified not only by His glory being seen, but by its being rejoiced in.
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He who does not know Him, knows nothing else as it truly is.
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I go out to preach with two propositions in mind. First, every person ought to give his life to Christ. Second, whether or not anyone else gives him his life, I will give him mine.
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Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
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Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
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You all have by you a large treasure of divine knowledge, in that you have the Bible in your hands; therefore be not contented in possessing but little of this treasure.
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A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
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True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
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